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Comment by behnamoh | Hacker News Reader

I really wanna like Google products but so many abandoned Google projects, inconsistent ecosystem, Google privacy nightmares, poor aftermarket experience, and lack of attention to UI and UX (remember the jump from Android 11 to 12?) have made me settle on iphone and Apple’s ecosystem.

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While I don't think Google will abandon Pixel phone, yeah I'd be wary of buying pixel watch for sure.

For better or worse, Apple's rectangular form factor is something people have gotten used to and frankly it's more space efficient than a circle.

To really make a dent in the market place, they should build a product that has a Wow factor that is good enough to lure even Apple Watch users away.

The Apple Watch isn't anything to write home about, but it gets the job done (for the most part). Battery life is horrible. I'm charging daily. After using a bunch of form factors, only Garmin seems to get the circle right and WearOS seems like there wasn't a lot of thought put into doing smartwatch tasks on that form factor.

They are seriously going to need to come up with something out of the box that you mentioned to draw users. There is no wow factor at all with this thing.

I’ll never forgive them for how they butchered Nest. And yes I do think of that when I contemplate anything from Google like this watch.

> I really wanna like Google products

Why?

If something was good to you in the past, there's going to be a psychological bias towards it.

Same. I have various "accounts" with google to manage various services and I can never find the right place to login for the set of services I am looking for.

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